Tag Archives: Knee replacement

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 10, 2020 Disparities in unilateral knee replacement surgery have been well documented, with lower use and higher complication rates among African American patients. While previous studies had focused on single knee replacement surgery, researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) set out to …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 9, 2020 The recently FDA-cleared alpha-defensin lateral flow test is a highly accurate ten-minute test for diagnosing periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), a serious and costly complication of total joint replacement, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The magazine is …